Madden '18

[Dayze]

getting sort of frustrated. I've been playing a franchise as a QB. To mix things up, once I selected to play as a QB, I randomly chose a team to play for. sure enough, I'm playing with the Browns lol.

but my frustration is, EVERY game comes down to like 3 points. that doesn't bother me all that much, but what does bother me is my defense is apparently #1 (mainly due to me chewing up clock on offense I suspect), but last season, the most the opposing offense punted in a single game was..............2 times. Virtually every game, the opposing teams punts once....if at all.

so no matter how balanced I am, no matter how much time I chew up.......the game 90% of the time comes down to me needing to win it on the final drive. I'm not looking for blowouts by any means, and I try to sim as much as possible (trying to stay balanced between pass and run etc), playing smart (I only threw 6 INTs last season)...but man, it gets pretty old fast.

how can I have a #1 defense, but never force the opponent to punt the ball? almost every game is 23-21; 24-20; 20-17. I can have 10 play drives that eat up 7 minutes of an 8 minute qtr, and I watch the sim as my defense is on the field, and it's bam bam bam, score. I'm consistently double TOP, and in some games I've been TRIPLE TOP.

am I doing something wrong? If I'm double TOP with 0 turnovers in almost every game, I shouldn't be consistently down by 3 or 4 with 2 minutes to go, should I?